1920-04 - C&O Canal being filled

Company Worried By Pending Bills But, Despite This Fact, The C. & O. Canal Is Being Filled

Despite rumors of a possible cutting off of the supply it usually carries, water is being turned into the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and plans made to load the first coal boat of the season at Cumberland next Monday.
On account of strikes, increased cost of operation and depletion of its forces by the military draft, the canal has started the last few seasons with the greatest uncertainty as to its ability to continue in operation and the present year promises to be no exception to the rule.
This time the trouble is attributed to legislation pending in the Maryland legislature, which, if enacted into law, coal operators claim, will put out of commission the small mines that furnish the bulk of coal shipped to Washington from the Cumberland field via the canal.
Miners assert, on the contrary, that bill is fair and cannot seriously affect the operatives.

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Company Worried By Pending Bills But, Despite This Fact, The C. & O. Canal Is Being Filled

Despite rumors of a possible cutting off of the supply it usually carries, water is being turned into the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and plans made to load the first coal boat of the season at Cumberland next Monday.
On account of strikes, increased cost of operation and depletion of its forces by the military draft, the canal has started the last few seasons with the greatest uncertainty as to its ability to continue in operation and the present year promises to be no exception to the rule.
This time the trouble is attributed to legislation pending in the Maryland legislature, which, if enacted into law, coal operators claim, will put out of commission the small mines that furnish the bulk of coal shipped to Washington from the Cumberland field via the canal.
Miners assert, on the contrary, that bill is fair and cannot seriously affect the operatives.